Think "Baby Doll" meets "Baby Jane".
Director Jack Hill is to Lon Chaney Jr what Ed Wood was to Bella Lugosi. Only Hill did it with a lot more style.
If you love horror films (cheesy or otherwise), this should be right up your alley. And you can't help but notice just how...( read more)
Lon Chaney Jr, Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
A caretaker devotes himself to three demented adults after their father's death.
DVD Release Date: September 14, 1999
Stats: 252 reviews
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July 25, 2008
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July 13, 2008
Fantastically bizarre horror spoof/homage featuring a very young, very bald Sig Haig
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April 6, 2008
A family of three childlike adults, one of whom is obsessed with spiders, is taken care of by family chauffeur Lon Chaney Jr. in a dilapidated house, until some outsiders come calling. The unsettling atmosphere created by director Jack Hill is utterly unique and almost impossib...( read more)
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March 28, 2008
Jack Hill creates a weird story circling about the strange Meryee family which suffers from some strange disease, causing their members to degenerate into primitive pre-human lifeforms, or as Lon Chaney puts it out "rotting of the brain". Chaney himself, of course, is - in a fine...( read more)
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August 5, 2009
A pretty bizarre B-Movie. Black & White we open up with a little 1960'ties Black Comedy. The postman goes to what is rumored to be a haunted mansion, After the initial opening it turns real has into B- Suspense/ Horror. As the post man sticks his head in the window to see what t...( read more)
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January 28, 2009
Jack Hill creates a weird story circling about the strange Meryee family which suffers from some strange disease, causing their members to degenerate into primitive pre-human lifeforms
or as Lon Chaney puts it out "rotting of the brain". Chaney himself, of course, is - in a fi...( read more)
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